Lily's Eyes

By BertaS

6/6/9

Description: Harry saves Severus after the Potions Master steps into the path of a spell.

Warning: None really - Pre-slash, perhaps a vulgar word or two.

Disclaimer: Be careful when making wishes; you may just receive what you ask for.

Lily's Eyes

Harry Potter grabbed the Potions Master come spy for the order off the Phoenix as he fell and apperated them both to the dubious safety of Grimmauld Place. It galled Harry a bit too know that his relatives were dead in the attack on their home. If Dumbledore had not insisted he return…

Harry shook the thoughts aside and quickly had the unconscious man on the bed checking him over for whatever damage the spell had caused.

He could find nothing obvious until he sat back and really looked at the man's face. The age lines and harshness were smoothing and softening until Harry was looking at someone near his own age of almost eighteen, or perhaps a little younger.

Harry was still studying the younger version of the Potions Master's face when the onyx eyes fluttered open.

Severus Snape stared at the attractive young man who looked familiar, but he was certain he had never seen before.

"Who are you?" Severus asked with a frown as he tried to back away. His head hurt immensely and he felt as though Black and his gang had been using him as target practice or perhaps a punching bag.

Harry backed away slightly with a surprised look.

"Well, are you going to answer me or just sit there like an idiot?" Snape sneered, "Or perhaps you are the one responsible for making me feel as though I've been run over by a fucking lorry?"

Harry sighed before answering, "In a way, I suppose I am. My name is Harry and you deliberately stepped into the path of an unknown spell that the Dark Lord was aiming at me."

Severus snorted as he moved his hand to rub his face, "Why on earth would I do something so monumentally stupid?"

Harry let out a snort of laughter, "You were saving me, again."

Severus let his hand thump back to the bed. "I don't know you." he said harshly. "Therefore it is inconceivable that I would put myself at such risk."

Harry sighed, "Yeah, at this point I'm pretty sure you don't." He smiled wryly. "Judging by the effects I can see, you've been… um, de-aged," he shook his head, "if that's a word. By about twenty years, maybe a bit more."

Severus sneered, "Of course, and you will try to convince me that I am nearly forty years old and you have no idea who Black and Potter are?" He struggled to sit up.

Harry shifted the pillows and helped the irritated teen to sit comfortably before answering, "James Potter and his wife were murdered by Voldemort on Halloween 1981.

Serius Black was arrested that same year for the murder of Peter Pettigrew and sent to Azkaban. He escaped after twelve years and was killed at the end of my fifth year at Hogwarts. He was cleared last year when Pettigrew was found to be alive, a marked Deatheater and my parents Secret Keeper.

Harry tilted his head, "I don't think I thanked you for that before." He shrugged one shoulder slightly, "Then again, you never actually claimed responsibility."

Severus shook his head slowly. "You are insane. It was only a couple of days ago that Black, Potter, Pettigrew and Lupin were all leaving for the Christmas Hols."

"Professor, it's June, 1998." Harry said softly.

Severus snarled, "That is impossible. It is Christmas '76."

"I'm sorry, but I was born in July 1980. You would have known my mother as Lily Evens."

It was then that Severus realized why the boy looked familiar, he had Lily's eyes.

Happy birthday Lilyseyes